lately i've really been wanting to rebuke everyone for not posting more frequently. i don't think you realize how addicted i am to your blogs. but then i think i can't rebuke without posting myself. and that just requires so much energy! i have to clear space on my hard drive so i can download pictures, download the pictures, photoshop em, upload em, and think of something to write. i know - my life is SO hard.
also, i have to grade papers. papers are the bane of my existence. but i still love my job.
test question: what's the difference between sculpture in the round and relief sculpture?
actual student answer: the difference is that they're different.
i digress.
here's a briefing from the last MONTH of my life, according to the pictures i've only just downloaded from my camera...unphotoshopped...and sideways:
i flew to san jose for a wedding. actually, that was in september. i'm really a behind. wait, i mean, i'm really behind.
we locked the keys in the rental car and spent a good 45 minutes sweating it out before one of the other bridesmaids mentioned casually that she has triple a. oh YOU have triple a?!! why didn't you SAY something?!
no harm, no foul.
we were rescued and managed to make it to the rehearsal dinner, having only missed the rehearsal, which is really a non-event at a mormon wedding anyway.
(mwahahahaa)
i ran the ragnar relay and took almost no pictures. i did get this great shot of the sunrise (yes, sunRISE) in the middle of our second legs.
i went to regina spektor with the girls. love regina.
love the girls.
max and perry visited (twice!) and they had a great time on the love sack. and the stairs. and emptying my purse.
oh yeah, their mother came, too. and we went shopping and got us one o those ones in the middle.
i flew to seattle for my grandpa's funeral which also turned into an impromptu reunion. reuneral! (can't take credit for that brilliance. that was all justin, the eldest, wisest cousin.) i had some thoughts on my sweet and ornery but mostly sweet grandpa, but decided not to be a downer, since it's november. november's a downer month, don't you think? i do.
we surprised our grandmother for her birthday. all of her (living) grandkids, daughters, daughters-in-law, sons and sons-in-law were able to make it to the funeral, which preceded her birthday by 2 days.
behold the stimpson grands plus a grand-in-law and 2 greats:
(click here for a more better pic by lola)
some of us forgot that we're adults. yes, this is just after i fell out of the swing. yes, i'm 29 years old.
i love my family. the faces were grandma's idea.
we stimpson women sure know how to party.
the men on the other hand...
might ACTUALLY know how to party.
i taught a lesson on photography for enrichment, or relief society activity or whatever the official name is now.
i was trinity from the matrix for halloween, complete with morpheus, neo and agent smith. i had boots for the actual party, but not for the pictures, which is sad. the boots really made the costume. that and the leather pants. thank you, wet seal!
speaking of halloween, abby turned 27. wait, what?! they grow up so fast... don't worry, abs, you'll always be 23 to me :)
speaking of birthdays, i finally mailed a gift that i bought for my mother in july 2008 for christmas 2008, forgot that i'd bought it (apple, tree, not far...), decided to give it to her for her birthday, forgot again that i had something already, decided to give it to her for mother's day...see a pattern? mom, didja get it yet? i sent it via usps, so i'm kinda scared.
deette came to visit! so of course the girls got together for drinks. virgins all around! (sigh)
the anniversary of alex's death came again (as anniversaries tend to do), but i figured i was sufficiently depressing on his birthday post, so i'll just let it ride.
mary and i zipped our friend courtney into a suitcase.
i remembered that autumn is my favorite season and that i like to take pictures and that i love dc because even though november's a downer, it's still warm enough to run outside in shorts and a short-sleeve.
so here's a little preview for the next post...sometime in march...ish.
